DataList's EditCommand not being raised

[Nathan Sokalski]

I am attempting to raise the EditCommand event of a DataList when a Button
in the ItemTemplate is clicked. Here is the HTML used for the ItemTemplate:

<ItemTemplate>
<asp:Label id=lblEvent1 runat="server" EnableViewState="False"
Width="175px" text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container,"DataItem.eventname")
%>'></asp:Label>
<asp:Label id=lblDescription1 runat="server" EnableViewState="False"
Width="500px" text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container,"DataItem.description")
%>'></asp:Label>
<asp:Label id=lblDate1 runat="server" EnableViewState="False" Width="100px"
text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container,"DataItem.eventdate","{0:d}")
%>'></asp:Label>
<asp:Label id=lblDetails1 runat="server" EnableViewState="False"
Width="115px" text='<%# DataBinder.Eval(Container,"DataItem.details")
%>'></asp:Label>
<asp:Button id="btnEdit1" runat="server" Width="80px" Font-Bold="True"
CausesValidation="False" Text="Edit Event" CommandName="edit"></asp:Button>
</ItemTemplate>

Here is the event handler used to handle the EditCommand:

Private Sub datEditEvents_EditCommand(ByVal source As Object, ByVal e As
System.Web.UI.WebControls.DataListCommandEventArgs) Handles
datEditEvents.EditCommand

Label1.Text = "You clicked index " & CStr(e.Item.ItemIndex)

datEditEvents.EditItemIndex = e.Item.ItemIndex

Dim events As New DataSet

Dim myconnection As New
OracleConnection(System.Configuration.ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings("connectionString"))

Dim cmdselect As New OracleCommand("SELECT * FROM eventlist ORDER BY
eventdate", myconnection)

Dim eventsadapter As New OracleDataAdapter(cmdselect)

eventsadapter.SelectCommand = cmdselect

eventsadapter.Fill(events, "eventlist")

datEditEvents.DataSource = events

datEditEvents.DataBind()

End Sub


Notice that I did include the CommandName="edit" in my Button control and
the Handles clause in my event handler. When I click the button, nothing
happens. I tested this using a Label which you see as the first line in my
event handler. What am I forgetting? Is the CommandName attribute
case-sensitive? Am I using the wrong value? Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

 

[jasonkester]

You seem to be going nuts with the EnableViewState="False" attributes.
Are you sure you didn't throw one of those onto the DataList or the
Form? That would be sufficient to unhook all your events.

Jason Kester
Expat Software Consulting Services
http://www.expatsoftware.com/

 

[Nathan Sokalski]

Yes, I'm sure. One thing that I often do in my code to make it faster is
make any Labels that I don't change EnableViewState="False" since the text
is in the aspx file anyway. But here is the code for my opening DataList
tag:

<asp:datalist id="datEditEvents" runat="server" Width="100%"
DataKeyField="eventid">

As you can see, nothing there that I don't need (well, I guess it would
still run without the width, but it might be kind of ugly). Any other ideas?